United States Ex Rel. Leibowitz v. Schlotfeldt

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order, in a habeas corpus proceeding, discharging appellee from the detention and custody of appellant, where he was by reason of a deportation warrant issued on the grounds that appellee, as an alien, entered this country without an unexpired quota immigration visa as required by law. Section 213 (a), title 8, U.S.C.A.

Appellee • was born on December 28, 1898, in Kuldiga, Latvia, and was given the name of Leib Leibowitsch. From 1915 until 1919 he was in Russia, serving a part of that time in the Russian Army. He then returned to the place of his…